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New deer fence being erected around a solar farm in Wiltshire, trying a 25 year plus timber treatment, which is cleaner to work with then traditional creosote-treated timber fence posts. 3 Separate small sites on the same park approx. 3000m.
The SoloNet Tornado wire is rolling smoothly out in 450 metre rolls with solo netting dispense.
https://www.solofencingsystems.com/solonet
Left over ash pieces up-cycled to create a hibernacula which is a safe shelter for amphibians, reptiles and insects at Southwick Country Park
August 2026
Following on from a very wet winter, Mark has been out this week levelling the ruts created by construction traffic on this solar site in order to allow seeding with a BNG mix. (8th May)
We could do with some rain now!!
Something a little different today, installing 1000m of water pipe to a new water/drinking trough on the Pewsey Downs.
Good job done using the Valtra 253 with mole plough.
The ultimate in upcycling: during WW2, 28000 concrete Pill Boxes were built to defend the arteries of England against a possible invasion. The Pill Boxes are all made of concrete. In this project, we converted an initial four of them for use by bats ! These were all undertaken within the Pewsey Vale alongside the Kennet & Avon Canal, as part of a Crown Estate Funded Project.
We blocked up all but one viewing point, creating a lockable door fitting, perches and bat boxes to the inside.
See this link to The Historic England Blog for more information.
Here, our task was to erect fencing to protect newly planted native-mix hedging on the edge of Salisbury Plain.
We used a single strand of electric fence with 2 x barbed wire to stop the cattle from eating the new plants!
Total number of trees/saplings planted: 6408
Shrub species for the field edges: Hazel, Holly, Viburnum, Blackthorn, Field Maple, Hawthorn.
Tree species for the middle sections: Alder, Pine, Oak, Poplar, Hazel, Willow, Holly.
It’s all about the preparation – in the foot of Roundway Hill near Devizes
Before the planting, we sowed a legume mix back in September, then the lines were marked out with GPS then sprayed out to create a suitable planting area. Deer fence next on the to do job list
Complete tree management for the next generation
19th November 2025
